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3 Easy steps to speed up your computer

Are you tired of waiting for your computer to catch up to your life speed?. While it seems that you are always waiting for your computer to catch up, there are things that you can do to get things back on track and bring back your PC to it’s normal state. Here are 3 very [...]

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How to enable the Hidden Aurora Boot Screen

Default Vista Boot Screen Aurora Boot Screen If you are tired of the default black boot screen in Windows Vista there is a way to replace it to a more highly visual bootscreen. Vista has two bootscreen one is the default black bootscreen and the other one is the hidden Aurora bootscreen. They say that [...]

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How to Start Windows in Safe Mode

This is a common question of my clients, friends and blog guest to me so I decided to create a guide on how to start windows in safe mode. Many times in order to remove a piece of spyware or for troubleshooting and diagnostic purposes, you’ll have to start Windows in Safe Mode. While in Safe Mode, only specific programs and files needed to run the operating system are loaded. Some functions, such as connecting to the Internet, will not be active in a standard Safe Mode and a standard video driver will be loaded causing a washed out look and a possible change in resolution.

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What is Config.MSI? Is it safe to remove config.msi folder?

Just about this morning I receive a mail asking if he can delete the config.msi folder and if it’s safe to remove config.msi folder. The answer is yes, you can safely remove config.msi folder. But before we begin the procedure on deleting that folder let me first explain what is config.msi and where you can find it.

Config.msi is a hidden folder that is located on the root drive of Windows. During an installation it saves files with the extensions of .RBS and RBF. What is .RBS and RBF.? well.. they are rollback script files used by the installer to uninstall recent changes if an install fails somewhere along the way. These two files can reside on different drives. The .rbs files are always stored in Config.msi folder on the drive where the operating system is installed. The .rbf files are stored in the Config.msi folder located on the disk where the program that is being backed up currently resides.

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